A fascinating combination of history and family memoir， author George Bearfield manages to interweave the （previously unknown to me） story of the Czechoslovakian resistance during WWII with conversations with his late Grandfather， Jaroslav Bublik， an unlikely-seeming hero of that resistance， and a key member of the Czech army based in England during most of the war。 Operation Foursquare was a secret mission， which was expunged from all official military records after the war， making the author's A fascinating combination of history and family memoir， author George Bearfield manages to interweave the （previously unknown to me） story of the Czechoslovakian resistance during WWII with conversations with his late Grandfather， Jaroslav Bublik， an unlikely-seeming hero of that resistance， and a key member of the Czech army based in England during most of the war。 Operation Foursquare was a secret mission， which was expunged from all official military records after the war， making the author's research into his Grandad's participation extremely difficult。 It was the final planned parachute mission into Czechoslovakia， in 1945， but many of Bublik's comrades from England had preceded him in earlier missions， most of them meeting untimely deaths。 The combination of the historical with the intensely personal gives this book a unique texture， and opens up an entire area of recent European history with which most of us will be unfamiliar。 Four stars rather than five， because there are a number of errors in the syntax， punctuation etc， that a good proofreader could sort out。 Highly recommended。 。。。more